I am a scholar of contemporary fiction, media, and feminist science and technology studies, focusing on how scientific concepts travel across contexts and assert universal applicability.
My current book project, Minor Theories of Everything, is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the proliferation and propagation of scientific universalisms about human sociality since the 20th century, and their surprising uptake by feminists and writers of color. I published an article drawn from this project in American Literature.
My second book project, Making Scientific Lives, investigates the co-formation of biographical media and the modern sciences, and traces tensions between ideals of scientific impersonality and the circulation of scientists’ life stories in academic and popular cultures.
Currently a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UPenn’s Annenberg School for Communication, I received a Ph.D. in English from Yale University and before graduate school, worked as a software engineer at Datadog. With Annie McClanahan, I co-edit Post45 Journal, a diamond open-access peer-reviewed publication.